My agitation on Sunday week during and after your departure called forth _reflections_ which actuate my present conduct. I do not consider it right personally to place myself so fully and confidentially in the power of one, who, however honorable and noble, occasionally seems to forget he is confided in by a Being who _feels_ herself entitled even in the sight of God, not only to the appellation of virtuous, in the strictest acceptation of the word,--but RIGHTEOUS. This appellation as far exceeds the former in _value_ as the heavens do the earth, as the one is to be found, I trust, frequently in the unregenerate, whilst the _latter_ springs SOLELY from _above_. Pray do not imagine by the step now taken that I am incapable of duly appreciating your valued affection!--for I hesitate not to declare there breathes not the Being so dear to me as yourself. Yet, whilst I make this declaration and consequently admit that all the world are as nothing in comparison with you,--I consider it equally my duty to _add_ that however dear GOD may have made you to me--(and I feel it is His Work, Why or Wherefore time must explain) _you_ are as nothing in comparison with CHRIST, Whose honor I consider concerned, being, I glory to say His openly acknowledged, however unworthy, servant, And for Whose sake _consequently_ I have come to the determination of exercising the _self denial_ herein required. That you could ever think of ME, notwithstanding your occasional forgetfulness,--with any other than the _most_ honorable of feelings, would of course be as impossible as to imagine you could at pleasure bring the heavens down under your feet or turn the Sun out of his course, since _both_ would be more likely than that I could even for a single moment forget the _high_ END for which I was created, namely, to _glorify His Holy Name Who_ HAS REDEEMED _me with His precious Blood_, and _rather_ than dishonor it I should prefer the sufferings of ETERNAL torments! Trusting that the step thus taken may be received by Your Grace in the light _duty_ both to God and myself demand, I will not intrude upon your time further than to assure you that should any _spiritual_ advice from me be considered needful either in sickness or health, it will _always_ be at your service. With an assurance of remembering you from time to time when I approach _His Throne_ (Who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity) and Who looketh into the _deepest_ recesses of the _human heart_, I beg to subscribe myself that which in reality I trust you believe I am, namely, Your Grace's Most faithful friend In The Lord. A. J. The Duke's answer was a strong contrast to this effusion. LONDON, Jan. 10, 1835.